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Israel’s opposition declares new government, set to unseat Netanyahu

Published On: June 3, 2021 12:22 PM NPT By: Reuters

ISRAEL, June 3: Israel’s opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he officially told the country’s president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form a new government.

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India gov't seals deal for 300 mln Biological-E COVID-19 vaccine doses

Published On: June 3, 2021 09:57 AM NPT By: Reuters

INDIA, June 3: India's government said on Thursday it has inked a deal with domestic vaccine maker Biological-E for 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for 15 billion rupees ($205.62 million).

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Israel’s opposition declares new government, set to unseat Netanyahu

Published On: June 3, 2021 07:14 AM NPT By: Reuters

ISRAEL, June 3: Israel’s opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he officially told the country’s president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form a new government.

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Brazilian conjures works of art from plastic bags

Published On: June 2, 2021 02:59 PM NPT By: Reuters

Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces works by renowned masters without using a drop of paint - just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers.

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A Russian village prospers thanks to the pandemic

Published On: June 2, 2021 12:50 PM NPT By: Reuters

Residents of a picturesque Russian village have seen the price of their land double as people from Moscow and other cities snap up properties as a refuge from COVID-19 where they can work remotely.

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WHO approves Sinovac COVID shot in second Chinese milestone

Published On: June 2, 2021 10:12 AM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, June 2: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech (SVA.O) for emergency use listing, paving the way for a second Chinese shot to be used in poor countries.

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At least 23 African migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia, NGO says

Published On: June 2, 2021 07:33 AM NPT By: Reuters

TUNISIA, June 2: At least 23 migrants from Africa drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, and 70 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent humanitarian organisation said on Tuesday.

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Is it all Greek to you? Coronavirus variants get new names

Published On: June 1, 2021 06:37 PM NPT By: Reuters

June 1: Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma.

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Prehistoric cemetery in Sudan shows war has been hell forever

Published On: June 1, 2021 03:15 PM NPT By: Reuters

All was not well among the peoples who inhabited the east bank of the Nile River in northern Sudan some 13,400 years ago, as revealed by the battered bodies buried in a cemetery at one of the world's oldest sites showing human warfare.

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French restaurant serves up food of the future: insects

Published On: June 1, 2021 12:10 PM NPT By: Reuters

Laurent Veyet's tasting menu is not for the faint-hearted, but may point to the future of feeding a booming world population - there is a prawn salad with yellow mealworm, crunchy insects on a bed of vegetables and chocolate-coated grasshoppers.

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Coronavirus variants get new names

Published On: June 1, 2021 10:14 AM NPT By: Reuters

LONDON, June 1: Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek Alphabet in a bid to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma.

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At least 55 killed in eastern Congo massacres, U.N. says

Published On: June 1, 2021 07:01 AM NPT By: Reuters

CONGO, June 1: At least 55 people were killed overnight in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, the United Nations said on Monday, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years.

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Somaliland holds first parliamentary vote since 2005

Published On: May 31, 2021 07:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

SOMALIA, May 31: Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative stability.

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China says each couple can have three children, in change of policy

Published On: May 31, 2021 01:12 PM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, May 31: China announced on Monday that each couple would be permitted to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two children, after census data showed a dramatic decline in births.

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Naftali Bennett: The right-wing millionaire who may end Netanyahu era

Published On: May 31, 2021 07:20 AM NPT By: Reuters

ISRAEL, May 31: Naftali Bennett, Israel’s likely next prime minister, is a self-made tech millionaire who dreams of annexing most of the occupied West Bank.

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Gunmen abduct students from school in north-central Nigeria

Published On: May 31, 2021 07:02 AM NPT By: Reuters

NIGERIA, May 31: An armed gang abducted students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said.

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Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK COVID-19 variants

Published On: May 30, 2021 10:27 AM NPT By: Reuters

HANOI, May 30: Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday.

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UK PM Johnson marries fiancee in secret ceremony - reports

Published On: May 30, 2021 10:01 AM NPT By: Reuters

UK, May 30: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, the Sun and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported.

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Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

Published On: May 30, 2021 08:07 AM NPT By: Reuters

CANADA, May 30: The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

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Brazil on drought alert, faces worst dry spell in 91 years

Published On: May 29, 2021 03:24 PM NPT By: Reuters

BRAZIl, May 29: Brazil’s government agencies warned of droughts this week as the country faces its worst dry spell in 91 years, increasing fears of energy rationing, hitting hydroelectric power generation and agriculture while raising the risk of Amazon fires.

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